Suppose, however, that you have visited 46 of the 50 states, and you don’t want to have to type out the abbreviations for ALL of those states! Well, just change the variable from “visited” to “notvisited” and list the states that you don’t want colored in! For example:

Which results in this:
If I wanted all the states colored, but a background color of navy blue, I would use:

http://www.fillinthestates.com/map-img.php?visited=all&bgcolor=0000C0

Which results in this:

Next, to actually put it on your site, you have two choices, img tag or iframe. (Iframes will not work on wordpress.com or other free blogging sites that don’t allow iframes or script tags, so you’ll want to use the img tag.)

The image will show up at that point in your page! (If you use the custom width and height parameters in the URL of the image src, make sure to adjust the “width” and “height” to reflect the numbers you are using.)